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See also: Mullah

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmʊ.lə/, /ˈmʌ.lə/
Rhymes: -ʊlə

Etymology 1

From Turkish molla, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian (mollâ), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

Noun

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mullah

mullah (plural mullahs)

(Islam) A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.

Translations

a Muslim religious scholar and teacher

Albanian: mulla (sq) m
Arabic: مُلَّا m (mullā), مَوْلًى m (mawlan)
Azerbaijani: molla (az)
Bashkir: мулла (mulla)
Belarusian: мула́ m (mulá)
Bengali: মোল্লা (mōlla)
Bulgarian: молла́ m (mollá)
Chechen: молла (molla)
Chinese:
Dungan: мола (mola), ахун (ahun)

Mandarin: 毛拉 (zh) (máolā), 穆拉 (mùlā), 阿訇 (zh) (āhōng)
Finnish: mullah (fi)
French: mollah (fr) m
German: Mullah (de) m, Mulla (de) m, Molla m
Greek: μουλάς (el) m (moulás)
Hebrew: מולא m (mula)
Hindi: मुल्ला (hi) m (mullā)
Indonesian: mullah (id)
Japanese: ムッラー (murra)
Kazakh: молда (molda)
Korean: 물라 (mulla)
Kumyk: молла (molla)
Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: молдо (moldo)
Malay: mullah
Nogai: молла (molla)
Pashto: ملا (ps) m (mәlã, molã)
Persian: ملا (fa) (mollâ), آخوند‎ (âxund), آخوند (fa) (âxond)
Polish: mułła (pl) m
Portuguese: mulá (pt) m
Russian: мулла́ (ru) m (mullá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мула m

Roman: mula (sh) m
Spanish: mulá m
Tajik: мулло (mullo)
Tatar: мулла (tt) (mulla)
Turkish: molla (tr)
Turkmen: molla
Ukrainian: мулла́ m (mullá)
Urdu: ملا m (mullā)
Uyghur: موللا (ug) (molla), موللام (mollam), ئاخۇن (axun)
Uzbek: mulla (uz)

Etymology 2

Verb

mullah (third-person singular simple present mullahs, present participle mullahing, simple past and past participle mullahed)

(transitive, UK, slang) Alternative form of muller (“to beat, thrash”)
- 2009, Nigel Benn, The Dark Destroyer
  But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.
- 2016, Ben Cohen, Carry Me Home: My Autobiography (page 76)
  The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him. I pushed him, dumped him on his arse, ran through him. Every time.

Anagrams

Hallum

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